Brake



may 22, 192s. 1,670,729

A 1 E. LA BRIE BRAKE Filed Nov. 29, 1926 lNvENTR u): ATTomgEY LuDGbR ELABRIE n `Q25 h@ Patented May 22, 192gn LUDGER E. LA. BRIE, OFSOUTH BEND, INDIANA, ASSGNCJR TO BENDIX BRAKE COM- Pm, F i CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

.A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

application med November 29, 189818.v Serial No. 151,374.

l This invention relates to brakes and is illustrated as embodied in an internal expanding brake for the front wheel of an automobile provided with novel operating and adjusting means. An object of the invention is to provide means such as stops determining the angular position of the cam or equivalent means includes an arm which is' mounted on i a brake-applying shaft in such a manner as to permit it to be adjusted angulerly on the shaft, and this arm is provided with a. stop cooperating with a support which carries the brake-applying means. Thus theshaft can be adjusted from time to time to new angular the rakes while the stops will still determine the released or idle position of -the shaft.

Other objects and features ofthe invention, including a novel support or mounting for the brake-applyin shaft, and other desirable and novel detai s of construction, will be apparent from the following description of the illustrative embodiments shown in the accompanyingr drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical section through the brake just inside the head of the brake drum and showing the brake shoes in side elevation;

Figure 2 is a vertical section through the upper part of the brake at right angles to the section vof Figure 1 and showing the brakeapplying means;

,Figure 3 is a partial section on the line 3*.3 of Figure 2 showing the adjustment ofV the brake-applying arm on the brake-applying shaft; A

Figure 4 is a partial section on the line 4 4 of Figure 1 showing' one marmer of supporting the bracket or bearing forming the support for the brake-applying shaft;

Figure 5 is a view corresponding to Figure 4 but showing a modifiediform of mounting for the shaft support; i

Figure 6 is a partial diagrammatic section ppsitions to compensate for the wear oi on the line 6--6 of Figure 2 showing the novel stopzs in their relation to the cam;

Figure 2 but showing a device having stops of dif- -ferent form;

Figure 8 is a partial section on the line 8 8 of Figure 7 showing the arrangement of the stops;

Figure is a view 'corresponding to Figures 2 and 7 but showing a third 'form of stop; and

Figure 10is a partial diagrammatic section on the line 10-10 of Figure 9 showing 1 is a view corresponding to Figure .i

the arrangement of the stop with respect to thecam. v

The brake selected for illustration includes a rotatable drum 10, at the open side of which is arranged a suitable backing plate or other support 12 carried by a knuckle 14 swivelled by a kingpin 16 or the like at one end of a front axle 18. The particular friction means illustrated includes a brake shoe 20 anchored on a pivot 22 carried by the backing' plate 12, a second shoe 24 projecting 4 between spaced arms forming the end of the shoe 2() and anchored on a pivot 26 passing through relatively large openings 28 in said arms and carried by the backing plate 12,

and a third shoe 30 connected to the unan-- chored end of the shoe 24 by a floating pivot *i 32 and arranged to be operated in applying the lbrake to force the shoe 24 toward the drum against the resistance of an auxiliary return spring 34. The brake is arranged to be applied by a suitable means such as a. double com 36. which acts against a return spring 38. and which may have at its end a flange 40 confining the ends of the shoes 20 and 30 against lateral movement. This brake is substantially as fully described in Patent No. 1,567,716. granted Bendix Brake Company on December 29, 1925,von an application of A; Y. Dodge. i

The cam 36 or its equivalent may be operated by a shaft 42 on the end of which there is mounted a lever or arm 44 havinits lower end flattened to be enga ed b a. all 46 integrally formed on the en of t elevel 48 mounted on a pivot 50 carried by the axle 18. The center of the ball 46 is preferably arranged when the brake is applied either :in the axis of the king-pin 16 or aw hundredths of an inch from that axis on t e side Vme nari, the drum l0. Preferably the arm 4:4 is mounted on shai't 42 in such a manner as to permit. ii to he adjusted angularly on the shaft-as the lor/alie Wears in use. @ne means 6 off asking this adjustment is shown in Figure 3 end includes a holt o2 having its thread serving a worm to engage Vworm gear teeth'-i cui. in the shaft 42. The bolt 52 is arranged i, bridge a slot 56 in the upper end of the le r if/i Wirth its head 5S seated in a conical ,niession formed on one side of the erm with a nut (S) threaded on its other1 end and provided with a conical hase seated in. similar depression on the'opposite side lhe 1.3m. will be seen thatJ by loosening;l :thai and turning 'the bolt 52 the arm riff. een loe adjusted singularly on the shaft and that hy tightening the nut 6.0 to con tract the slot 56 the arm can he clamped in any adjusted position.

llfhe shaft ll2, is shown journalled in e bracket G2 which serves as a support for the 'shaft and which in turn is mounted hy s pivot pin (iigure ei) or 66 Figure 5) or 68 ('Fignre 9) on the hacking p ate l2, which thus serves to support the shaft through the bracket 62. ln the arrangement of Figure l one enel ofi the pivot 64 'is insertedin an op ning in the backing plate i2 While the der end is inserted in a similaropening in mpingl forming an outboard hearing f the pivot and which is fixedV to the hackf 7G is preferably resilient and is drawn against the leaching plate 12 at the end opposite the rivet 72 by means such as holt le to piace the stamping under tension, time rictionally gripping the lower end of the bracket 62 1n such a manner es to `resist its angular movement, while'at the seme time permitiing it to he shited when the hralre is applied so that the cam 36 may automatically center itself. ln the arrangement oil' Figure 5, thestamping 76 i'oriniingl the outboard hearing for the pivot 68 is spot-Welded at its opposite ends to the backing plate l2, ln this modification the part of the pivot 66 which. p'asses through the `hacking plate l2 is of the same diameter as the part in support 52, and'the pin 66 is therefore heid against axial movement. hy means such as a Cotter pin 78 engaging the side of stamping 76 opposite the hacking plate l2. ln the arrangement of Figure 2, the pivot 68'is in the form oi a hollow rivet carried lov thefhaclzing plate 12.

According ro an important feature of he invention, arm 44 or its equivalent and one vor the oiherof the supports i2 and 62 are provided with nierengaging stops Whicl determine the idle position o'l hhs arm 44 and shaft l2 and Whichmaj/ also desired he arranged to limit the brake-applying 'movement ci' the shaft so to Warn the plate hy a rivetnr the ilre 72 at one end.

'driver hat adjustment of the brakes is ref.

neurone@ time to time as the brake Wears, the Cam 36 will gradually assume a position more and more inclined ioivard lis active positlon, at the time the brake 1s released, to preserve vapproniinatciy uniform clearance between the shoes 2V) and 30 and the drum 10 when the brake is released.

ln the-arrangement of Figures 2 and 6, the arm 44 carries pair of pins 80 passing through slots out in the hacking plate 12, The position of the paris when the brake is released, before any adjustment of the arm 'lll has been made, is shown in Figure 6. As the adjustments aremade, the cam 36 will gradually he turned more and more in a counter-clockwise direction in this figure, so that it will be heid by engagement of the pins 80 with the sides of the' slots 82 and prevented from assuming a vertical position, thus spreading' the shoes 2O and 30 apart to adjust 'their clearance in idle pos1 tion with respect to the hralie drum 10. In the arrangementoi Figures 9 and 10, there is only a single pin 84 arranged in a slot or recess 86 in the hacking plate 12 and opern ating the same as the pins 80. In the arrangement of Figures 7 and 8, arcuate lugs. 88 are formed on the arm lli and are an ranged to project into arcuate openings or recesses 90 formed in support 62.y

While. several illustrative embodiments lhave been described in detail, it is not my ilo 2. A larele control comprising, in comhion the shaft and provided with a projection arranged in said notch.

4. A brake control comprising, nation, a brake-applying device having a shaft, a support in which the shaftfis journalled and which is formed with a notch, an operating lever havin."Y ahnh secured on the shaft and'providcd with a projection arranged in said notclnand means for adjusting the lever anfgnlarly on the shaft.

5, AA brake control comprising, in coinoination` a 'hrakedrpplying device having a shaft, a support in which the sha ft is journ in combinallcd and which is formed with diametri@ cally-opposite notches, and an operating lover havingr a huh secured on the shaft and provided with dianieirically-opposite projections arranged in said notches.

G. A hrakc control4 comprising. in cmnhination, a ineke-applying device having a shaft, a support in which the .shaft is jonrnailed` and a lever having a huh secured on Said shaft, the huh and the support having portions adjacent cach other and one of which portions is formed with an opening and the other of which portions is provided wih a projection arranged in the opening'.`

7. A brake control comprisingy in con'ihination, a brake-applying device having a shaft, a support in which thc shaft is journalled, a lever haviner a huh secured on said shaft, `the hub and tlie support having portions adjacent each other and one of which portions is formed with an opening and the other of which portions is provided with a,

projection arran ed in the opening, and means for adjusting the lever singularly on the shaft. i

8. A hrakc control comprising, in combi-` nation, a brakeapplying device having a. shaft, a support in which the shaft is journallcd and which is extended at one side as an arm, a second support adjacent said arm, a phot for the arm having one end' mounted in the second support, a resilient-,mein ber secured at itsI lirst end to the Second Support and carrying' theI4 opposite end of `said pivot and engagingr the 'iace of the arm opposite the second support, and means for drawing the second end of thc resilient membcrtoward the second support to grip said arm frictionally between the resilient memhcr and the second support.

9. A .brake control comprising, in combi nation, a brake-applyiner device having a shaft, a support in which the shaft is journalled and which is extended at one side as an arm, la second support adjacent said arm, a pivotl for the arm having one end mounted in the second support, a resilient member se- -curcd'at its first end to the second support and carrying the opposite end of said pivotl and engaemg,r the face of the arm opposite the second support, and means for securing the second end of the resilient member to thc second support.

In testimony' whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.

LUDGER LA BRIE. 

